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A fascinating thread beginning with #AI #management #jobs and branching off into #EV #BEV #riceCookers #sustainability #resilience #climateCrisis and more. Has my vote for #bestThreadEver
From: @RickiTarr
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115129335224173175
I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams
Congratulations to @WIRED for catching their AI-written article, retracting it, and publishing a candid 𝘮𝘦𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘢."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-got-rolled-by-an-ai-freelancer/
Have any academic journals done that?
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wichtiger Retröt eines Pixelfed Posts von ... earlier this year 🤘
#StarterPack #AI #LoehweVsAI
"The only realistic path forward for generative AI firms is to start charging their users the direct costs for running their services, and I do not believe users will be enthusiastic to do so, because the amount of compute that the average user costs vastly exceeds the amount of money that the company generates from a user each month."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/
There's some really gross hypocricy on Fedi regarding AI by computer scientists/ tech enthusiasts who are vocally critical of some aspects of generative AI for appearances, but who are actively benefiting from the AI bubble professionally, and talking out of both sides of their mouth.
There is also some gross classism in the decrying of people's intelligence who are using it to take shortcuts (as if they are the problem, not the wealth-class or hypercompetitive neo-liberalism).
I think we are making a mistake listening to half-assed criticisms from uncredible sources while focusing on the users of generative AI, instead of directing our ire at the tech industry itself.
There is a complete lack of accountability from the tech world to begin with about all the decisions that led us to the AI bubble.
It is just one of a long string of disastrous failures (#enshittification) and framing it as an AI-only issue, or an issue of degrees ("I know how to use it ethically!"), evades responsibility for the decades long growth of tech-surveillance capitalism.
AI is the logical endpoint of early 21st century tech, and criticisms of it need to be grounded in criticisms of the tech industry in general. #AI #Tech
#LinkedIn #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #TANSTAAFL #NoFreeLunch
It's working!
"Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data. The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August. Most other lines, representing companies with fewer employees, are also at a decline, with some still increasing."
I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.
I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.
If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations
#LLM #AI #opensource #historicalmaterialism #histomat #materialism #digitalcommons
Well, my book on TDDA has become slightly more real:
It’s not expected to be available until April, but you can see it on the publisher’s website at
https://www.routledge.com/Test-Driven-Data-Analysis/Radcliffe/p/book/9781032897158
Although the publisher won’t let you pre-order till the end of March, the paper copy is listed on Blackwells and Waterstones:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/test-driven-data-analysis/nicholas-j-radcliffe/9781032897158
and Amazon will let you pre-order paper or Kindle copies.
#TDDA #books #data #analysis #testing #datascience #quality #AI #ML
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A weirdly beneficial potential #AI upside for society's hard pressed bottom rung, if we could provide it:
#AI #bankruptcy legal assistants.
The daunting effort of this process without a lawyer versed in a state's sometimes insanely convoluted bankruptcy law is now digitally achievable in seconds.
With a very patient explainer of what, why and how.
Print ready to sign and file with the court, theoretically.
Generative #AI enhances individual #creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38996021/
been dealing with some thoughts today. let's call this an exorcism (exartcism, if you will. okay, fine. maybe not).
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I guess I won't be reading Al Jazeera any more. *sigh*
"Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI ‘from passive tool to active partner in journalism’"
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/al-jazeera-launches-new-integrative-ai-model-the-core
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I keep seeing a lot of advice for writers saying "don't use this, don't use that" because it will show up as AI written.
I hate it. It makes me worried. A lot of the "AI" traits in writing overlap with storytelling language. Spoken language.
When I write, as a storyteller, I use em dash when I would take a breath or a pause on stage, instead of finishing a thought. I use triple adjectives because in spoken word they add to the rhythm.
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Hello, I’m Adam. I support a team that designs and builds supercomputers for #HPC, #MachineLearning, and #AI applications. We span the full stack from datacenter design to middleware and app optimization.
Outside of work? My personal means of expression is mostly in #TTRPG campaigns, as well as baking cakes, playing #jazz music, and random tech fun.
I also spend a lot of time entertaining our three cats and a dog. What can I say, the beasties are pretty cute.
1. Economists from the physiocrats (18th century) onward promised society freedom from material deprivation and hard physical labor in exchange for submitting to an economic arrangement of society
2. In a country like the US, material deprivation and hard physical labor have been significantly reduced since then:
Though too many clearly still suffer too much, a large proportion of people live free from fear of starvation or lack of shelter
The US has deindustralized, meaning hard physical labor is not the reality for a lot of people. For a lot of people labor is emotional or symbolic (“knowledge work”)
In other words, for lots of people the economic promise has been fulfilled
It is not coincidental that “Gas Town”’s announcement post mentioned Towers of Hanoi, an undergraduate CS student homework problem that for most students requires thinking hard. It’s designed to encourage a kind of “eureka” moment where recursion as a computer programming technique becomes more clear. GT claims to fulfill the promise of not having to think hard like this anymore: the LLMs will do that thinking for you
It is not coincidental that Gas Town is described as being very expensive. Economic power in the form of asset accumulation is what earns you freedom in this way of conceiving things. If you want the freedom from having to think hard, you’d better accumulate assets
Since the promise is greater collective freedom, endeavoring to accumulate assets is, in this view, a collective good
This differs from effective altruism and other “do good by doing well” conceptions. Rather, the very mechanism of economics produces collective wealth, so the story goes, which means the more active one is as an economic agent, the more collective good one produces (“wealth” and “good” being conflated)
Accumulation of assets is the scorecard, so to speak, of such enhanced economic activity, and the individual reward can then be freedom from having to think hard
Lotka’s maximum power principle (supposedly) dictates that those entities that transform the most power into useful organization are most fit from an evolutionary standpoint
Ernst Juenger’s notion of “total mobilization” brings this principle to politics/political economy/geopolitics: those nations that “totally” mobilize their national resources are the ones that will dominate geopolitically
See, for instance, the RAND Corporation’s Commission on the National Defense Strategy: “The Commission finds that the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat. It needs to do a better job of incorporating new technology at scale; field more and higher-capability platforms, software, and munitions; and deploy innovative operational concepts to employ them together better.” (emphasis mine). In summary: the US is about to be outcompeted (lacks fitness); in response, it should go big (“at scale”, “more”) in an organized way (“deploy innovative operational concepts”, “employ them together better”)
The rhetoric around LLM-based AI includes similar language, exemplified in the GT post: burn through as much infrastructural resources as possible to produce organized outputs “at scale”, while avoiding having human beings think too hard to produce those outputs, an indication that the power was burned to produce useful organization
LLM-based AI plays a prominent role in US federal government strategy, particularly military strategy, with language about dominance serving to justify its use
It is not coincidental that Gas Town uses many orders of magnitude more resources to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem (“Burn All The Gas” Town). This rhetoric dovetails perfectly with the “total mobilization” concept